Solving
“when are we all free?”
and “where do we all
want to eat?”

Free for everyone, forever. Everything below is just the detail.

Deciding where to eat takes four apps and twenty-five minutes. You still end up wherever had a table.

It already knows when the five of you are free.

Every other app makes you do the coordinating. Maps and lists are timeless — they have no idea you and Maya are both free Thursday. Booking apps hold the tables but have never met you. PalAte holds all three: the calendars, the taste, and the live book.

You do the deciding here. You drop in on the table.

Can’t make your 8pm? Somebody in this city can.

Somebody’s Friday falls through every week. On PalAte that table doesn’t die in a cancellation queue. It goes up on the floor, another member offers something back, and somebody eats. PalAte facilitates the negotiation. Members settle the terms between themselves. Meet PalateX →

Three steps from “can’t make it” to somebody else at the table.

no account needed to watch · PalAte facilitates the negotiation

We hunt the impossible table.

You are not going to sit refreshing Resy at 9am on a Tuesday. We will. Point a Hunter at the room you can never get into and we watch its book around the clock. When a table drops, your phone buzzes with the real slot — 9:00 PM Wednesday at Somssi, already on the card. Two taps and it's yours, from the train.

The whole app is three gestures.

1. 01
   Swipe the deckReal food photos, not storefronts. Ten seconds in, you'll have three places you'd actually go tonight.
2. 02
   Rate 1–10Swipe up when you're done eating. One number, no essay. The deck gets sharper every time.
3. 03
   Take the tableLive slots on the card, one tap into Resy or OpenTable on that slot, and the voice agent for “fully booked” nights.
4. 04
   Day one, aloneNo friends on it yet? The deck still opens ranked — 13,559 rooms, food photos first, live tables on the card. Friends only make it sharper.

ten ratings and the deck is yours

$ palate --trace you
 rate("Gen Korean BBQ") = 10.0
   └─→ taste_vector    += [korean, group, $$]
   └─→ friend_graph    ⇒ 4 friends notified
   └─→ deck.rerank()   ⇒ 3 new cards surface
   └─→ dinner_match()  ⇒ sat 7pm · 2 mutuals free

Rate one dinner and the deck shifts. Rate ten and it stops handing you tourist traps. You will never write a review. You'll just end up with a top 10 that's actually yours.

Five friends beat five thousand reviews.

Your feed is what your people actually ate this week. Friends first, always. A friend gives a place a 10 and it lands in your deck. A friend can't make their 8pm and that table comes to you.

Free for diners, forever. The restaurants are the business.

There is no team. There's me.

I'm Austin. I build PalAte alone — the iOS app, this website, the pipeline behind 13,559 restaurants, the voice agent that calls a hostess when the internet says no. I started it because I was losing twenty-five minutes of every Friday to “idk where to eat…” If something's broken, or your favorite spot is missing, the email below comes straight to me and I answer it.

Built block by block in New York. Opens anywhere.

Open it in Lisbon and the deck fills with Lisbon. But it was built on New York: neighborhoods curated by hand, live tables on the rooms people actually fight over.